SUstainabLe Tunnel Agriculture with light cascade techNology

Projektinformationen

SULTAN

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 674406

DOI

10.3030/674406

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 8 Mai 2015

Startdatum 1 Juni 2015

Enddatum 30 November 2015

Finanziert unter

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Gesamtkosten

€ 71 429,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 50 000,00

Koordiniert durch

CASCADE
France

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SULTAN (SUstainabLe Tunnel Agriculture with light cascade techNology)

Berichtszeitraum: 2015-06-01 bis 2015-11-30

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

"Cascade, a spin-off of LPRL laboratory, is a French SME located in Clamart founded by Mr Frederic PEILLERON in 2012.
For more than 20 years, the LPRL, a French private laboratory, has been working on “light cascade"" effects that create a shift of the solar spectrum which leads to a doping of the natural process of photosynthesis in greenhouses. With this unique and innovative know how, Cascade decided to develop an environmental solution to improve the agronomic yield of crops in greenhouses. This solution increases food production of protected crops of fruits and vegetables using sustainable and efficient processing. It reduces cost of food production as it allows more efficient use of farmland.
Light cascade technology brings a perfect answer to the requirement of a green-efficient, cost-saving solution to increase crop yield and reduce production cycles. This is a growing European and global market creating huge business opportunities. Most all European countries and a large part of the world are in need of environmental and sustainable solutions to improve crop yields. This interest fuels development of world greenhouse market, a long term growing market with huge business opportunities. Cascade’s long-term objective is to become the world specialist in sunlight spectrum control solutions. Our objective is to become a new standard in the market.
Cascade’s solution is a revolutionary and sustainable way to improve agronomic crop yields in greenhouses and thus food production. It is technologically ready for industrialization.
After preliminary work achieved technical satisfaction and led to a strong interest of potential customers, the SULTAN project will allow to generally refine the company business plan to reach the market with the maximized marketing and commercialization strategy.
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Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

Cascade is a French SME, created in 2012, specialized in light technologies. Cascade exploits proprietary optical technologies that lead to a more efficient use of sunlight for various applications. Cascade’s solutions are thus used for two key market applications, agriculture sector and photovoltaic domain. In December 2014, the innovative company has been winner of SME instrument phase 1 with the project SULTAN. The subsidy awarded by the European commission has given us the possibility to:
• Define the communication strategy and elaborate a communication plan;
• Perform a complete market study;
• Define the industrialization strategy;
• Define an IP and regulatory strategy.
Those different actions have been leading us to entirely refine our business strategy and thus, our business plan.

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

To Cascade, the expected outcome is therefore to sell an ecological solution able to increase crop yield and reduce production cycles with 3 main advantages:
• Environmental: by doping the photosynthesis, our solution only uses natural energy;
• Cost savings: by limiting the use of chemicals while increasing crop yield, costs to produce fruit and vegetable will decrease;
• Quality: by using natural energy and less chemicals, food quality will be much more improved.

Cascade's greenhouse tunnels inside

Cascade's greenhouse tunnels

Cascade's films and particules